A tribute to Doctor Ravitch

A TRIBUTE

TO

DOCTOR

RAVITCH

This is the 300th issue of Current Problems in Surgery, representing over 20,000 pages of timely and pertinent information since the journal’s debut in January 1964. With this issue, Mark M. Ravitch, M.D., retires as Editor-in-Chief after founding the journal and editing it continuously for 25 years. It is unusual to find an editor with such longevity on the same periodical. But, then, Mark Ravitch is an unusual individual. Surgeon, scholar, educator, editor, author, curmudgeon-he has been all of these and more during his tenure on Current Problems in Surgery. This “little green journal” has become known as Doctor Ravitch’s, and each and every issue is imbued with his philosophyy. Doctor Ravitch’s importance to academic surgery, to the surgical community, and to Year Book Medical Publishers is inestimable. He has taught generations of surgeons and generations of publishers. We are deeply grateful for his many contributions, and we look forward to his continued presence and curmudgeonly pronouncements as Editor Emeritus. Thank you, Doctor Ravitch, for a wonderful quarter of a century. Year Book Medical

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